![]() ![]() Herbs and vegetables for the event are grown in the hydroponics aquaponics lab, where the plants use byproducts from the fish tank as nutrients to help them grow the plants in turn clean the water for the fish, which is recirculated into the fish tanks. Students at Food and Finance High School learn basic scientific principles through hands-on research, grow food produced by the labs and use the food in the high school's culinary arts program. Warner directs the hydroponics, aquaculture and aquaponics learning labs. The students worked with a chef and a caterer to prepare a six-course meal featuring tilapia fish from the aquaculture lab and a variety of herbs and vegetables grown in the hydroponics aquaponics lab. The food was served at a fundraising dinner for the Food and Finance High School and CUCE Hydroponics Aquaponics After School Science and Technology Program May 20 at the Food Network studios. ![]() Clad in white lab coats and goggles, high school interns from New York City's Food and Finance High School listened intently as Cornell University Cooperative Extension (CUCE-NYC) scientist Philson Warner demonstrated how to harvest produce they had grown. ![]()
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